Gwen is one of those Fiery Millennials who wasn’t interested in holding down a day job until she had reached or surpassed her FI number. Instead, the twenty-something with military experience left her “career job” and is building a business while expanding her skillset, gradually Transitioning into FI.

Minnesota Meetups This Thursday

I can now confirm the following get-togethers for seekers of FI on 8/23.

1. The MN State Fair (the highest rated fair in all the land). It happens to be opening day at the fair, and I’ll be there throughout the day, along with a handful of bloggers (including Budget-on-a-Stick, appropriately), Camp FI attendees and others. Planning on a 5:00 pmhappy hour at the Ball Park Cafe, a block east of the giant yellow slide.

Join us for one-of-a-kind beers, amazing food both on-a-stick and off-a-stick, and good conversation. If you’re not willing to fork over the $11 or $12 entry fee or have a healthy fear of prized livestock, you many want to check out Our Next Life’s alternative meetup at…

2. Minnehaha Falls. Skip the Great Minnesota Get-Together and meet up with Tanja Hester & friends at the most scenic waterfall in the Twin Cities. It’s a big park, but I read to meet on the picnic lawn at 6:00 pm. It’s the N spot on this map, I am told — just a skosh northwest of the G spot.

minnehaha falls in may, 2011

Later in the evening, the St. Paul and Minneapolis meetups will merge, reconvening at…

3. Brit’s Pub around 8:30 pm. The meetups converge in the downtown Minneapolis theater district. There’s a great rooftop patio with lawn bowling. I’ll see you there!

Summer is Almost Over!

The back to school sales have been in full swing since June, and I’ve already see the transition at our neighborhood drug store to Halloween candy. What?!?

I can deal with Oktoberfest beers in August, but I’m still trying to enjoy the last couple weeks of summer before Labor Day arrives and the kids go back to school.

Of course, for some of you, school has already started for your little ones and you’re settling into those fall-like routines despite the beautiful summer weather. Football’s back on television and people are returning from their final summer vacations; I guess it’s time to accept the inevitable.

This has been my first summer as a part-timer, and it was outstanding. For the first time in a long time, I didn’t spend any time apart from my family. In past years, my wife and kids would spend at least half the summer at our cabin near her family, and I’d commute back and forth as best as I could while working full-time two states over.

This time around, we went back and forth a couple times as a family, spending five weeks at the cabin in two multi-week stretches. While I’ll be going back to full-time work for most of the winter, I will be back to working a lovely part-time schedule next spring and summer. And my schedule only gets better after that. 😉

How was your summer? Ready for it to be over?

Minnesota locals and end-of-summer visitors, are you able to join us for a meetup? Talk to me in the comments.

Having lived of off Loring in internship and near Minnehaha in residency, loved those pictures. Just returned from a medical meeting in Mpls. I love Brits, and the whole of downtown has really blossomed. Enjoy the great MN get together et al. Cheers, MDS

I won’t be making camp FI Midwest this time. I’m headed to Colorado to get my FI house (my new (to me) 5er)! We’re planning on domestic (in the RV) and international travel as a family when I leave my current job at the end of ’19.

Although I won’t make the camp, I’m only working until noon on Thursday, so I’ll plan on heading up to the cities for the Meetup. I’ll plan on joining Tanya at the beautiful park and meet the rest of you guys at the pub. I used to grab lunch at the park when I did my VA rotations…

Are the meet ups strictly for FIRE bloggers? I have been following your blog, and some others, for sometime and I’m interested to meet and talk to people who are so involved with FIRE (as I am, but I don’t blog about FIRE).

Wish I could make the events but I have other commitments on Thursday. Also, after hearing about Camp FI Midwest, I really wanted to attend this but something else was slotted in for some time and I couldn’t break that commitment after finding out about the event. Sounds like there is a good list of people attending and hopefully I can make it next time.